Important Money Saving for National Express East Anglia

spooky25

hi all

just thought I would let everybody know about how to get one of the cheaper tickets.

On friday this week I was due to see friends in London for a night out. as usual I didnt have the oppertunity to book those elusive cheap tickets weeks in hand as this was a last minute thing.

Anyway I looked at the website to see what sort of prices I would be able to go from Norwich to London for and from what I saw it was looking pretty grim look i.e the cheapest was at £41.00 upwards.

I searched and searched for those cheap tickets on the website but gave up hope on the wednesday night thinking I was going to have to pay top whack for my train tickets when I descided to call the ticket booking line, instead I found out that the cheap tickets were still there up until 6pm the day before travel providing I booked before 6pm.

I managed to get a cheap ticket but maybe not the cheapest as I think they only have those really cheap tickets for the services not on peak times but at £12 one way I manged to travel on the 16.30 service from norwich to london and returned on saturday on the 11.08 service all for £24.00 in total saving me at least £20+ on my travel . these tickets came with conditions e.g on travel on the services I was booked on.

so always give the booking line a ring as the rail company's are sneaky taking off the really cheap fares like mine to coax you into paying top money for your train ticket.

spooky25 :T

kitchpoo

They are also really helpful if you ask about seat seservation - you can specify specific seats and they have seating plans available. You cant do that on the net.

sammyw

Thats a good idea spooky - we use National Express East Anglia too, but mostly from Clacton and they don't do the cheap seats on that line! Have been able to get a £6 each way cheap ticket from clacton to norwich online the other day, but going anywhere else other than Norwich you can't get the cheap seats

spooky25

sammyw wrote: »

Thats a good idea spooky - we use National Express East Anglia too, but mostly from Clacton and they don't do the cheap seats on that line! Have been able to get a £6 each way cheap ticket from clacton to norwich online the other day, but going anywhere else other than Norwich you can't get the cheap seats

hi sammy

I can understand where you are coming from with the ticket problems that you are having , I understand clacton is almost classed as a branch line very much like the local bittern line in which I travel on to Norwich.
there is also another way in which you could try and save money , this is by splitting the tickets e.g two singles or a cheap mainline ticket and then your regular fare to clacton off of a mainline station I know it may not be the cheapest but it may proove to be more slightly cost effective for you if you are shrt on time.

all the best

spooky 25:D